"Beloved Consumers, Fraught Cyphers" Colloquium on Children and Media

September 9, 2016 - 10:00am to 6:00pm

On Friday September 9 from 10:00-6:00 in Cathedral 501, Pitt Postdoctoral Fellow Diana Anselmo-Sequeira is hosting a colloquium, "Beloved Consumers, Fraught Cyphers: Young People, Material Culture, and Media History." The colloquium program is as follows:

10:00 AM
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS & BREAKFAST

10:30 AM
FIRST PANEL: CHILDREN, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDIA REPRESENTATION
Pamela Wojcik (University of Notre Dame), Meghan Chandler
(Santa Monica College), and Meredith Bak (Rutgers-Camden)

2:00 PM
SECOND PANEL: FEMALE YOUTH, CONSUMER CULTURE, AND MEDIA ACTIVISM
Tyler Bickford (University of Pittsburgh), Sarah Projanksy (University of Utah), and Emilie Zaslow (Pace University)

4:15 PM
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS PRESENTATION
Clare Withers and Jeanann Haas (Hillman Library, Pitt)

5:15 PM
LIGHT RECEPTION

Sponsored by: The Humanities Center; Film Studies Program; Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program; and The Department of English
For Questions or Concerns Contact: d-anselmo@pitt.edu
Click here for the event flyer. A full schedule of events is available here.

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